Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Manchester City

Molineux Stadium is the venue as Wolverhampton Wanderers and Manchester City go head-to-head in a lopsided Premier League fixture.

Home manager Gary O’Neil is under intense scrutiny heading into this round after Wolverhampton went winless in the opening seven matches of a new league campaign for the first time since 2004/05. Nailed to the bottom of the table, Wolves have only got one point on the board thus far following a disastrous 5-3 defeat at Brentford right before the international break. Another winless outing would match Wolverhampton’s worst start to the season since the 1980s, and with Manchester City rolling into town, chances are they’ll set an unwanted feat this weekend. Indeed, Wolves have suffered seven defeats across their last eight matches against the perennial Premier League champions, highlighting the potential for losing their first four top-flight home games for the first time in club history.

In contrast to Wolverhampton’s dire form, Manchester City headed into October’s international break as one of only two Premier League teams yet to lose a league game this term (W4, D2). Pep Guardiola’s high-flying side came from behind to beat Fulham 3-2 at home last time out, equalling the longest 30-game unbeaten run in the club’s Premier League history (W24, D6). Hitting the road will unlikely take the wind out of their sails, considering the Citizens are unbeaten across their last 14 league travels (W12, D2). It’s also worth noting that each of their seven most recent victories in that sequence yielded multi-goal margins, with five coming ‘to nil.’ That was the case in Man City’s three consecutive wins at Molineux before a dismal 2-1 defeat in this corresponding fixture last term.